THE ADVENTURE OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY: TO WHICH IS NOW PREFIXED A SHABBY GENTEEL STORY. CATHERINE: A STORY. (VOLUME I)
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat Thackeray's Works: Handy Volume Edition. 392 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges discolored and rubbed, significant scuffing and marks to cover faces, many white spots (paint?) on both front and back covers, spine is faded with scuffs and some white spots, spine ends are quite fraying and torn. Gilt top page edge. Spine slightly cocked and loose. Front hinge broken. Frontispiece protected by tissueguard. Interior pages browning along edges, some corners are creased or bent, some page edges are chipped. Book in Good condition.. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Illustrated. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8". Famous Author.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007357
- Title
- THE ADVENTURE OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY: TO WHICH IS NOW PREFIXED A SHABBY GENTEEL STORY. CATHERINE: A STORY. (VOLUME I)
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Keywords
- Famous Author, Fiction, William Thackeray
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Famous Authors;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8"
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
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